Washington (EFE).- Former United States President Donald Trump consolidated his victory this Wednesday by taking the key state of Michigan from the Democrats, according to projections by the Associated Press agency and the networks CNN, NBC News and Fox News.
With the 15 delegates from Michigan, Trump now has 292, having already surpassed the 270 necessary for victory last night, while the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, remains with 224.
In this way, Trump takes all the key states of the “blue wall”, the color of the Democrats: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, all of them with a significant white and working class population.
That territory was for decades a bastion of the Democratic Party, whose candidates won there in every election between 1992 and 2016, until Trump managed to win in all those states, which President Joe Biden then recovered for the Democratic field in 2020. .
Now, Trump, who has modified the traditional message of the Republican Party to appeal to the working class, has once again won all those “blue wall” states.
From a narrow margin in polls to Trump’s victory in Michigan and other key states
For the last month, polls showed Harris and Trump practically tied, and it was clear that the elections would be decided in the seven pivotal states: Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.
A person votes in the US Presidential elections in Grand Rapids, Michigan. EFE/ Paula Escalada Medrano
Trump has won in five of them (Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania), while Harris has not won in any, and it remains to be seen who wins in Arizona and Nevada.
Americans do not decide by popular vote who will be their next president, but rather they designate a number of electors in each state who make up the Electoral College and who are in charge of choosing the next tenant of the White House.
The Electoral College is a body made up of 538 delegates who elect states based on their population. The winning candidate in each state, even by a single vote, takes all of its delegates with the exception of Nebraska and Maine. The candidate who reaches 270 wins the elections.
